compactification

1. (countable, uncountable)Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.

2. (countable, uncountable)The space resulting from any such procedure.

3. (countable, uncountable)Any modification of a theory such that an infinite parameter becomes finite.

4. (countable, uncountable)The reduction of the number of large spacetime dimensions of a physical theory by making some of them compact.

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